Brazilian baby cries with her family... at her own funeral!

"SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazilian police say a newborn girl was saved from being buried alive when she started crying at a funeral home where she had been taken after doctors declared her dead.

A police statement says that the 14-year-old mother was seven months pregnant when she gave birth on Tuesday at the Santa Casa de Misericordia hospital in the city of Araxa.

Police say the hospital reported that the baby died moments after being born. The body was sent to a funeral home and as the undertaker was preparing it for burial, the girl started crying.

The baby was rushed back to the hospital and placed in an intensive care unit.

The hospital confirms the incident but gives no details. Neither police nor the hospital released names of the mother or child." - The Associated Press.

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Australian teen freed from bomb vest.

"Police in a Sydney, Australian suburb have freed a teenager who was strapped for almost 10 hours to a suspicious device believed to be a bomb.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported Wednesday that a balaclava-clad man entered the home in the wealthy suburb of Mosman and placed the device on the 18-year-old.

The woman was freed early Thursday and reunited with her parents, said Mark Murdoch, the assistant state police commissioner in New South Wales. 

"She's good — she's been kept in a very uncomfortable position," Murdoch told reporters early Thursday. "She has been and will be uncomfortable for a little while to come."

Police are still looking for a suspect and don't know whether the device is an explosive, he said.

"We want to get our hands on who's done this," Murdoch said.

Police were first called to the house around 2:30 p.m. local time Wednesday by the young woman. The Australian network reported that two negotiation experts kept her calm while two bomb disposal experts examined the device.

The Daily Telegraph reported that the girl, who turned 18 just weeks ago, belongs to one of Sydney's wealthiest families. It also reported a ransom note was attached to her.

But Murdoch said it was "far too early to say" whether the device was planted as part of an extortion attempt and would not comment when asked whether a note was left with the device.

"The family are at a loss to explain this," he said. "You would hardly think that someone would go to this much trouble if there wasn't a motive behind it."

Murdoch described the device as "very elaborate, very sophisticated."

"The manner in which it was located in proximity to the young lady was such that it has taken us the better part of 10 hours to secure her release."

Surrounding homes were evacuated, several streets were closed to traffic, and medical and fire crews were on standby."

- CBC News


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Updated August 4th:

Apparently the entire thing is an elaborate hoax. The device was a fake, but made to look real. The attacker even left a ransom note. Things are still unclear as to who, what, why and how...

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